Monday, 13 October 2025

Historian Of Civilizations II

See Historian Of Civilizations.

I remembered that the title, "Historian of Civilizations," has been bestowed on EE Smith although it more appropriately, in my opinion, belongs to Poul Anderson but we also find that I have posted to this effect before. See the above link.

Details not mentioned there include that:

Anderson's Technic History also presents an account of Merseian civilization, which becomes unified and goes interstellar;

although Ythrians do not have a civilization because, being fliers, they do not build cities, we nevertheless read an account of how they as a species move out into space under the influence of Technic civilization;

Anderson's Time Patrol series shows us human societies from 13,211 BC to 2319 AD with some fragmentary information about later periods like -

the Martian war of 3890 and the Guidance Corps on Earth;
an aristocratic First Matriarchy;
the decadent stage of the Third Matriarchy;
twenty-ninth century New Edom on Mars and the Second Asteroid War;
post-nuclear Reconstruction;
Coordinator Stantel V, the Great Experimenter, in the thirty-eighth century;
Venusian raids and a murdered time traveller in 2987;
the discovery of time travel in 19352 AD.

Futures full of civilizations.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Paul!

Ythrians might not have "civilizations," but they did come to have a basically unified culture after the Domain arose after the Troubles.

And we get a "sort of" glimpse of one of those Matriarchies in "Gibraltar Falls."

Ad astra! Sean